Ancient BIND version?

[Kevin Darcy]

Treptow, Craig wrote:

> dig @<nameserver> version.bind txt chaos
>
> nslookup
> > set class=chaos
> > set type=txt
> > version.bind.

That only works with later versions of BIND 4, and, besides, if the
version string were already in the binary, I think "what" would have
shown it (at least it does on the old 4.9.3-P1 binary I tried). Judging
by the RCS/SCCS information (they don't even say "vixie"!), I'd say this
is probably circa BIND 4.8.3, which is too old to have the version.bind
hack. Unfortunately, I don't have any 4.8.3 binaries around to verify
this...

We appear to have a _bona_fide_ relic on our hands, friends. Maybe the
binary can be donated to the Smithsonian.

Did you say this was actually *running* on one of your servers? I bet it
really heats up those vacuum tubes.


- Kevin

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> From: Karma Crayona [mailto:karmac at my-deja.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 1:54 PM
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> Subject: Ancient BIND version?
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> I'm unable to determine the version of BIND running on one of my
> servers.  Here's the output from the "what /usr/etc/bind" command:
>
> # what in.named
> in.named:
>         db_dump.c 1.10 89/02/14 SMI
>         db_load.c 1.13 89/02/14 SMI
>         db_lookup.c 1.9 88/05/03 SMI
>         db_reload.c 1.12 88/05/03 SMI
>         db_save.c 1.9 88/05/03 SMI
>         db_update.c 1.9 89/02/14 SMI
>         ns_forw.c 1.14 88/05/03 SMI
>         ns_init.c 1.13 89/02/14 SMI
>          Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
>         ns_main.c 1.18 89/02/22 SMI
>         ns_maint.c 1.13 89/02/22 SMI
>         ns_req.c 1.14 89/02/14 SMI
>         ns_resp.c 1.18 89/02/14 SMI
>         ns_sort.c 1.9 89/02/22 SMI
>         version.c 1.5 88/05/03 SMI
>         strcasecmp.c 1.5 88/02/08 SMI
>
> Does anyone have any idea where I can find this info?
>
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